FRANCE - MITTERAND AND GONZALEZ MEET TO PAY RESPECTS TO SPANISH REPUBLICAN EXILES WHO DIED IN WORLD WAR TWO

Record ID: 646172

  • Title: FRANCE - MITTERAND AND GONZALEZ MEET TO PAY RESPECTS TO SPANISH REPUBLICAN EXILES WHO DIED IN WORLD WAR TWO
  • Date: 21st October 1994
  • Summary: FOIX, FRANCE (OCTOBER 21, 1994) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. LV FRENCH PRESIDENT FRANCOIS MITTERRAND AND SPANISH PRIME MINISTER FELIPE GONZALEZ ARRIVING AT CEREMONY AT WORLD WAR TWO MONUMENT 0.08 2. HAS, SV CROWDS APPLAUD 0.12 3. HAS, SV MITTERRAND AND GONZALEZ WALK UP TO MONUMENT 0.26 4. LV/ZOOM IN MITTERRAND LAYING WREATH AT MONUMENT (2 SHOTS)0.40 5. HAS,SV CROWDS APPLAUD 0.46 6. SV/PAN CAR CARRYING GONZALEZ AND MITTERRAND DRIVES OFF 0.56 7. SV CROWDS WATCH 0.59 8. GV OF PRESS CONFERENCE 1.03 9. SV/LV/ZOOM IN MITTERRAND SAYING THE IMPORTANT TASK OF THE MOMENT IS BUILDING EUROPEAN UNION AND FOLLOWING UP WHAT WAS AGREED TO IN MAASTRICHT AND TRYING TO PREPARE FOR THE EUROPEAN UNION INTER-GOVERNMENTAL CONFERENCE IN 1996 (FRENCH)/SV REPORTER (4 SHOTS)1.41 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 5th November 1994 12:00
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  • Location: FOIX, FRANCE
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  • Country: France
  • Reuters ID: LVAB6NO12SJ8FEI7U6B7PLRMER19
  • Story Text: French President Francois Mitterrand and Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez met in the small town of Foix on Friday (October 21) to pay respects to Spanish Republican exiles who died fighting against the Germans in the World War Two.

    A small crowd cheered as they arrived in the picturesque southwestern French town, a Socialist bastion liberated from the Nazis during World War Two by Spanish Republicans who had joined the French Resistance.

    The two men later laid wreaths at a monument dedicated to the exiles.

    The two-day talks between the two long-serving Socialist leaders in Foix was their last bilateral summit as Mitterrand will step down next May after 14 years in power.

    At a press conference, the two agreed that a proposal floated in Bonn for a two-tier European Union was unacceptable.

    And they said that the Maastricht Treaty must be respected by all present and future members.


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